What is Barometer?

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.

A weather system refers to the movement of warm and cold air across the globe, usually in a recurring pattern. Systems can...

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...